A Marijuana Blunt

A Times column complaining about the police enforcing the laws against marijuana includes the following passage:

How much pot did Mr. Griffin have in his pocket that night?

"I had a blunt," he said.

Just one?

"Yes," he said.

How much did it cost?

"Five dollars," he said.

A blunt, or marijuana cigarette, contains about one gram of marijuana, about the weight of a dash of salt.

This is an area in which your editor has no firsthand expertise, but other reading I've done — including, say, this Times article from December 2012 — defines a blunt not as a marijuana cigarette but as "a cigar filled with marijuana."

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